While fundamentally a design discipline, architectural education requires an element of history and theory, grouped under the term "research." However, many students struggle with this part of their course. This practical handbook provides the necessary grounding in this subject, addressing essential questions about what research in architecture can be.
The first part of the book is a general guide to the fundamentals of how to do research, from assembling a literature review to conducting an interview. The second section presents a selection of case studies dealing with such topics as...

Over the centuries, architects and designers have used inscriptive practices as a form of knowledge production, which is an alternative to the written text. This book argues that drawing, diagramming, and notation are equivalent to extended discourse in writing and, moreover, offer significantly different insights, not easily accessible through models of discourse analysis, critical theory, or observation. Simply stated, the conventional understanding wrought through architectural histories and theories only gives a part of the story: it is here suggested that by retracing the marks made by...